It seems light years since JJ Abrams’s announcement last month that the third full trailer would be the last we’d see of Star Wars: The Force Awakens until its official release on December 17. In the interim we have seen countless new clips hidden among international trailers and TV spots.

The latest of these – which is 30 seconds long – continues Abrams’s strategy of extending known shots at the edges with small details, giving us context for what what we’ve seen and making us appreciate it from a new angle.

Could this character be Jessika Pava? And could the actress playing her be Jessica Henwick?

There is more evidence of the dogfight on Starkiller Base – the ice world where the First Order have their headquarters – with a squadron of Resistance X-Wings lead by Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron. Two new characters from “Blue Squadron” are glimpsed obeying Dameron’s orders: a female pilot who could well be Jessika Pava, rumoured to be played by actress Jessica Henwick, and an alien of possibly Sullustan descent, referencing Nien Numb who attacked the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

A shot leading into existing footage of the Resistance crafts darting between TIE Fighters shows what could possibly by the black X-Wing – which we presume is flown by Dameron as the leader of the “Black Squadron” – as spotted on the set of the film in 2014.

But most of the new shots are given over to the cute droid BB-8. Here we see him looking up in semi-comic alarm and gargling as First Order aircrafts pass over the forest in which Rey is hiding, again fleshing out an existing clip. We have recently seen Rey and Finn piloting the Millenium Falcon, causing BB-8 to roll around the walls of the ship as it does a barrel roll. Here Rey tells the limbless droid to “hold on”.